DOST-FPRDI helps develop green charcoal

The country’s chicken roasters may soon be using green charcoal to cook their famous grilled products, thanks to a Pampanga-based firm and technologies from the Department of Science and Technology-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DoST-FPRDI).

A charcoal briquette is a compacted mass made from a mix of charcoal fines and a binder, and is molded under pressure. It is less messy than ordinary charcoal and easier to handle because it is compact and uniform in size. Also, it easily ignites, burns more slowly, gives more intense heat per unit volume, and is almost smokeless when burned.